Aqueduct:a methodology to assess and communicate global water risks

来源 :IGU2013 International Conference on Water Sustainability in | 被引量 : 0次 | 上传用户:hrf00123456
下载到本地 , 更方便阅读
声明 : 本文档内容版权归属内容提供方 , 如果您对本文有版权争议 , 可与客服联系进行内容授权或下架
论文部分内容阅读
  Remote sensing and GIS technology have been utilized very successfully in addressing both spatial and temporal variation in water hazards over large-scale area.The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas(Aqueduct)is a publicly available,global database and interactive tool that maps indicators of water related risks for decision makers worldwide.
其他文献
Groundwater supply over the arid zone in the inland river basin plays a significant role in desertification,storms and economic develop,as well as affecting other major environmental problems.The Yume
会议
The rivers of semiarid central Asia have an important role in local water resources,providing drinking water,hydropower,and irrigation for both subsistence and large-scale agriculture.Owing to the inf
会议
The northwest arid region of China has an extensive coverage of land and climate.Precipitation and its distribution are critically complicated by the atmospheric circulation and the morphology.The obs
会议
Based on the data of 32 plots obtained from investigation,the interconnection among 19 dominant species,171 species pairs in tree layer of the evergreen broad-leaf forest in Three Gorges Reservoir reg
会议
Cultivating pasture changes the turnover of aggregates and aggregate-binding agents(soil organic carbon [SOC],total nitrogen [TN]),and affects soil nutrient levels.Studies of these processes have focu
会议
Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity(NPP)is very important in global change study.One key way is to make simulation in regional and global scale based on remote sensing data.In this study,we used the
会议
The oasis distribution change of the Heihe River Basin is typical in the whole arid area of China.Taking remotely sensed images such as KeyHole,Landsat MSS,KATE-200 and Landsat TM/ETM+as the data sour
会议
Longnan is located in western China with a poor environment,where the agriculture and forestry are far behind other regions.Vegetation coverage,as an important indicator to assess the ecosystem owing
会议
Oasis was the unique landscape of arid area and the basic places for sustain human activities and development in the arid region,especially,in China.Under the influence of the increasing human activit
会议
SCS model has considered that surface flow and soil characteristic and land utilize the relation of the situation,can reflect that it influences the characteristic produced and flowed to cover the con
会议